Evangelicals’ favorite rapper is so successful, Billboard has changed how it ranks Christian music.

Kate Shellnutt

[ posted 2/5/2015 11:39AM ]

WME Entertainment

Update (Feb. 8): Lecrae's collaboration with For King & Country, "Messengers," won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. He attended Sunday night's show with a very special date, his mother.

Steve Hayner, one of the baby-boomer generation's most influential evangelical leaders, has died. He was known for his presidency at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and later at Columbia Theological Seminary.

(UPDATED) IS releases video reportedly showing execution of Japanese believer.

Timothy C. Morgan

[ posted 1/30/2015 01:14PM ]

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Update (Jan. 31): The Islamic State (IS) has released a video showing the beheading of Kenji Goto, a Japanese journalist and a Christian with a wife and two young children. The New York Timesreported Saturday evening:

Update (Mar. 20): Despite asking the President of the United States in person to "please bring daddy home for my birthday," Jacob Abedini turned seven years old on Tuesday (Mar. 17) without his father, Saeed Abedini. But President Obama marked the Iranian New Year ...

Caner brought struggling school back to health. Now he will focus on his own.

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

[ posted 1/20/2015 03:49PM ]

ErgunCaner.com

Six months after his son’s death by suicide, Ergun Caner stepped down today as president of Brewton-Parker College (BPC). After working hard the past year to successfully restore the struggling Southern Baptist college to health, Caner told trustees he now needs to ...

(UPDATED) Alex Malarkey's mother, grandmother, and publisher weigh in on retraction of best-selling book; John MacArthur first raised concerns two years ago.

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

[ posted 1/15/2015 06:03PM ]

Update (Jan. 21): Tyndale House Publishers revealed more details today about the publishing and retraction of its bestselling The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, stating it was "saddened to hear that Alex [Malarkey] is now saying that he made up the story of dying and ...

(UPDATED) On his second late-night stint, rapper's remixed song features quotes from MLK.

Kate Shellnutt

[ posted 1/10/2015 12:10AM ]

Reach Records

Update (Jan. 10): With images of an American flag flashing behind him and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. playing in between verses, Lecrae performed a timely selection from his chart-topping 2014 album on The Tonight Show Friday.